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Re:Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:37AM (#50178668)
Deno does not have its own type-checker. The `deno check` command is a wrapper for `tsc`. It will use the Go version if given a flag. The code is not first-party and is not in Rust.
Yes, the video has a transcript available. You'll find a "show transcript" button in the description.

That said, you'd be missing a bunch of hand-made illustrations and animations from one of the best math communicators in the world. If that's not appealing to you, I'm not sure the transcript will do much for you either.

Re:Decisions API is in public beta on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:45PM (#49986931)
The pitch is that it's a fully-general model, so you can skip training/tuning/selecting a particular categorisation model for each task.
> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

— https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:26AM (#49840849)
Sidebar: if you're also mitxela on youtube, I just had the strange experience of reading this comment while listening to your voice from a different window!
Show me the incentiveslop and I'll show you the outcomeslop.
Re:I don't want to read what you didn't write on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:30AM (#49797119)
On Macintosh keyboards it's ⌥⇧-. On the iOS soft keyboard, it's a long-press on the hyphen key. People often point out that various software will turn a double hyphen -- into one by default. We're overflowing with different ways to type an em dash, for those with any curiosity to learn.
Re:Jev-Leftpad on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:21AM (#49785360)
I have to be honest. While this is obviously a smart and useful idea, it misses one of the core features of Jev: its confidence scores. Partial confidence could easily be mapped to fractional spaces, using unicode characters like U+2009: THIN SPACE. As it stands, this package is not harnessing the full power of Jev.
Re:I Vibed a Proof of Conway's Conjecture on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:44AM (#49763674)
Be more specific. Is he a bad person for having an amateur interest in mathematics, for exploring that interest through language models, or for writing a blog post about his experience?
Re:Homebrew 7.0.0 on Sunday September 13, 2026 @09:47AM (#49683981)
That's an excellent question for the maintainers of the MacPorts project! It can supplement the very clear and polite answer you've already received from a maintainer of Homebrew.
Re:Can AI design circuit boards yet? on Friday September 04, 2026 @11:54PM (#49572941)
That's just derision, not an explanation. And it's a bad way to treat someone humbly trying to learn.
Re:Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:30AM (#49417300)
Google sells (and also owns) domains with exotic TLDs. It's reasonable to expect them to get handled gracefully.

And as the article explains, it was the prefix (web.*) and not the suffix (one.*) which turned out to be tripping their validation rules.

Re:The AI Credit Resale Economy on Monday August 17, 2026 @05:12AM (#49328213)
With an open-weights model, anyone with the hardware to run the model can act as a provider. The median provider pays nothing for the model, so they do not contribute to the cost of training it.
Re:Odin, Wikipedia and Engagement Farming on Saturday July 04, 2026 @11:07AM (#48785950)
Are you sincerely advocating that Wikipedia should never delete anything, regardless of notability or verifiability? Do you think that would make it better or worse?
Re:Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs on Monday June 22, 2026 @01:27PM (#48633106)
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you don't want people calling these apps TUIs, what would you prefer people call them? And what does the term TUI refer to, if not this?
The parent comment was specifically and exclusively talking about autism, not Down's syndrome. I'm addressing their claim that it is "ridiculous" for an autistic person to "claim" to be autistic when other autistic people have worse outcomes.

I'm not interested in litigating the fairly obvious point that Down's syndrome is a much worse prognosis than ASD, and the comment to which I responded says nothing about it either.

> "It's so odd to me that we haven't come up with a term for high functioning autism to separate from low functioning."

If you are interested to learn, autistic people are typically assigned a level of support needs on a scale of 1 to 3. Most people who would once have received a diagnosis of Aspergers now receive the "level 1" designation. Based on your description, your family member is likely "level 3", possibly with comorbidities? I was assigned "level 2".

> "I cannot recall why Asperger's as a term was dropped or deemed controversial"

It was dropped because a number of labels, now all considered to be ASD, were discovered to be different presentations of the same underlying disorder. The divisions break down under scrutiny and the apparent modal jumps disappear when you control for comorbidities and the ability to mask.

> "How is it any different than people with obsessive compulsive tendencies claiming they have OCD? There's a huge difference."

I'm not the other poster, but I'm a different autistic adult to whom your complaints might apply. To answer this question, the difference is that I call myself an autist because I have been diagnosed as autistic, due to meeting the diagnostic criteria of autism.

> "this is the equivalent of stolen valor"

Please go to the equivalent of hell.

Disabled people are allowed to call ourselves by the correct labels without apologising that our suffering is less severe or less obvious than someone else sharing the same label.

Re:Pretext on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @10:02AM (#47587559)
I'm sure the browser does do that, and plenty of other optimisations too!

This thing isn't trying to do standard text layout faster than the browser, it's trying to enable more exotic/dynamic/custom layouts while keeping reasonable performance. Take a look at the demos linked in the repo's readme; those are things which the browser's layout engine can't do on its own.

Re:Pretext on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:51AM (#47572348)
What you're missing is that each segment (typically a word) only needs to be measured once, in the setup phase. The canvas gets thrown away after that, and subsequent layout passes all reuse the cached measurements.

If you only perform layout once, it doesn't save any work. If you need to reflow many times, it saves a lot.

Re:Sony V. Cox Decision Reversed on Thursday March 26, 2026 @12:15PM (#47532345)
It's a matter of integrity. Support or oppose whoever you like, but if you change your principles based on the person in question, then you don't have principles at all.
Re:The Story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay (2020) on Sunday March 22, 2026 @01:07AM (#47474655)
I saw a docco about her and found it entertaining and interesting. I haven't seen her work in person, have you?
Re:The Story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay (2020) on Saturday March 21, 2026 @07:46PM (#47472784)
The world became a much more fun and interesting place for me when I stopped rejecting things on the basis of cringe.
> Or do they tag things and say "Customer X signed up on this date, so he is bound by T&C number 12, whereas this other customer signed up a year later and is bound by T&C number 13". That seems unwieldy since there is a common infrastructure.

If the company would like their T&C to carry the force of a binding contract upon me, then yes, keeping track of my agreement seems like the absolute bare minimum they must do.

Either these things are real contracts or they are not. The idea that it's too onerous for a company to keep track of its contractual agreements is absurd. That's giving them all the benefits of a real contract with none of the obligations.

Re:The Xkcd thing, now interactive on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @01:36PM (#47236718)
That's what it would mean to place them above unpaid developers in the illustration, yes.
Re:I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer on Saturday February 21, 2026 @09:42AM (#47101279)
For anyone seeking more details on this act, it is embodied as "18 U.S. Code §1030 - Fraud and related activity in connection with computers"[0], and applies specifically to the United States of America, a nation not involved in any way with this incident.

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

Thrilled to see someone else using a triple-em dash in the wild⸻keep holding the line.
Re:jQuery 4.0.0 Released on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:41AM (#46667747)
Upload progress. The Fetch API offers no way observe and display progress when uploading a file (or making any large request). jQuery makes this possible via the `xhr` callback.
Re:Just the Browser on Friday January 16, 2026 @08:56AM (#46646369)
It's silly to treat this like a totalizing partisan issue where everything must be clearly "pro-ai" or "anti-ai".

Browsers are currently incentivised to add a bunch of new features outside their traditional role. Some people prefer to keep the browser's role simple. It's not ideological and it's not "hating".

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